Arthur Sherlock-Mesher
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IT IS with great regret that we have to report die death on Tuesday this week of the longest-standing contributor to Commercial Motor, Arthur Sherlock-Mesher, who was editor of the journal from 19594)1.
Arthur Sherlock-Mesher jonied CM as ;in editorial trainee in 1928, and stayed with the magazine or 10 years, until he was promoted to the editorship of a new weekly. Chain and Multiple
STOW.
That magazine did not survive the outbreak of World War II, during which Arthur served in the Royal Artillery. After the War he returned to Temple Press, to produce a hardback book British Coin
then assistant
iijij hulusiry, and return to CM as editor.
lis innovations on CM included our diary page Bird's-Eye View and its pseu
donymous writer 'Th Hawk'.
Even after he had Ion departed from the inagazii staff he contributed to th page, and was largely re! pousible for it in recent years
In 1959, Arthur becarr editor of CM, and two yea! later accepted an invitatic front the Road Haulage Ass( dation to edit its maga7ir Roadway, retiring from the: in 1978.
Arthur will be rememberc as a kind and profession man, a gentleman in the ranf of journalism. Though ba .dened by ill-health in reed' years, he remained cheerb and enjoyable company ; long as we knew him. Ot sympathies go to his lama'